Year 9 Diocesan is doing the Horizon Project. Each of us got into a group of 2 and one group of 3. We then researched one of the 7 trends. Then, we got assigned our technology. We got data mashups. At first we were a little apprehensive, as we couldn’t find much about them, but then as we started to find out more, we got the idea.
Basically data mashups are an application or web-site that gets all its information from other sources on the internet. As the sources update their information, so does your data mashup. One example of a data mashup is Google Maps. People from around the world can add information to sites or sources. So for example, if a new street is built, the information about that street is automatically sent to Google Maps and the satellite that gives Google Earth the pictures for the programme. Yahoo Pipes is an application that allows you to make data mashups. You copy the URL from a websites that have an RSS feed to Yahoo Pipes and it gets the page for your mashup. As the page updates, the RSS feed changes the information sent to the mashup. The mashup then updates itself. It relates to education, because all the resources needed to teach a class can be in one place, in a data mashup. Since it is constantly updated automatically, the teachers dont have to keep updating it, which takes up time. The information is also current and up-to-date, giving the students the best possible and true information. After we had researched data mashups, we had to choose a theme. We chose Twilight. We chose this as our theme because 1) We are absolutely obsessed with it and 2) the majority of our peers love it as well, so it is an interesting subject to them as well as us. What we have to do with this theme is create a question related to Twilight for each topic (Art, PE, Health, English, Science, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Music and Technology Materials) and how we can teach the answer to the question using data mashups. We then are creating a data mashup for each subject concerning our question to do with Twilight.
Finally, we each make a video individually about data mashups. These cannot be made with Windows Movie Maker or another similar programme. We have to use a programme that is internet based.
Here is the information for all the subjects that we will follow. We are going to make a data mashup for each subject, showing how they can be used to teach a Twilight related theme for each class.
In Science we are finding out about blood because obviously that has something to do with Twilight. When it comes to blood there are a lot of different sub-categories available. One of the areas you can study is 'What blood types there are?', Others might be 'What is inside blood?' or 'What is blood made up of?', 'What animals have blood as/in their diet?' , 'How prone is blood to diseases and what can you do to improve this?' ,'How important is blood to keeping a human or body alive?', 'What role does blood have once it is in the heart?'. So as you can see you can go in all ways with just one subject that is one word long. You could easily get carried away.
This could be taught on individual laptops, the teacher creating a pipe or using the one we have made On Yahoo Pipes. Perhaps there could be a class Yahoo account so that when a student finds a website about blood with RSS, they can edit the pipe and add onto it. That way the student could be learning about blood by reading for relevance to put into the pipe, and then by the links on the pipe. Data mashups are simple to use. In this case they would find it on the internet or yahoo and select the link that looks most relevant to their question they have at the time. Say the question was 'What animals have blood as/in their diet?'. The teacher can either take the students through it as a class or everyone can use it individually. If the teacher took the class through she would need to project it on to a projector screen or have a Smart board in the class. He/She can click on the links that are to do with blood drinking animals and go on to the different websites. The class could ask questions together and interact in a way that they can't if they were working individually. To work individually the student will obviously need their own laptops or the classroom has 30 odd desktops to supply them with. Then they would go through the same process as they would have with their teacher but by themselves.
This just speaks for itself. On the data mashup you will find out what books Twilight is based on, what themes are in the book and find character studies. This ties into English very well because it is a book and includes all the things (or most of them) that are studied in English. Here we thought we could use data mashups in two ways to teach the above question.
First, the teacher could have a data mashup, with resources about the book in general.
Second, the students could make their own data mashups using Yahoo Pipes to explore an aspect of Twilight that interests them, such as a character study or how classics are interwoven in the book.
This data mashup is just another way of teaching Baseball in PE. Instead of the teacher teaching the class physically he/she can get them to learn how to catch in the best way without injuring your hands or fingers, letting you know the rules of baseball in detail, how to bat and the best way to do it etc. All this just in a baseball data mashup.
Miss Biddick says that it is great for a teacher have up-to-date information to refer to. Here the data mashups are helpful. We think the best way to use this mash up is as a class so in this case Miss Biddick would take us to a health class and project the data mashup on to a screen and talk it through with the class. This would mean that the class will probably get more out of the exercise. They would understand more about what is being demonstrated with the help of a proper PE teacher.
Here are the Cullens playing baseball like no human ever will.
Some of you that don't have Twilight crazy daughters might be thinking what's marble got to do with Twilight. Well actually it is one of the main characterises of vampires. Their skin is described as marble. Just like marble, their skin is rock hard, very strong, sparkly and is very pale. Bella (the main character and the book is from her point of view) often describes The Cullens (her vampire family) as having skin like marble.
Milli and I thought that the best way to demonstrate this similarity is by comparing the two. So the data mashup will have videos and sites saying what the properties of marble are and then sites and videos that demonstrate what vampire skin is like.
Among these materials is marble. Below is a link to a Wikipedia page about marble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble
This is a video of sculpting a marble woman:
Below may add a bit of insight into why a vampire's skin is so hard and perfect.
Since this is a very hands-on subject, data mashups would be a little harder to tie in, but maybe a project could be added into a project where students have to create a mashup about the topic they are doing, or the teacher could use a mashup with a link to step-by-step how-to videos.
Here is the best link I could find (at the moment) to some history of vampire art. http://www.darkfaery-subculture.com/general/the-history-of-vampire-art/
The rest are about weird stuff, not really to do with Art at all and most are blocked. How have vampires been depicted through time? This may include paintings on canvas, sculptures, dances, action and in movies. This basically means how have vampires been pictured, what is the stereotype of a vampire, what is the first thing you think of when someone mentions the word vampire. An example of this is how I see it. Before reading the Twilight Saga I always thought of vampires as cruel, violent, gothic creatures. But now I always think of sparkly, indestructible, beautiful, loving, vegeterian creatures. This is a perfect example of how you can change your mind about how things are and look like by learning something different.
The most efficent way to use data mashups in this case is by the teacher taking the class through the data mashup. This would mean that the students get more backround information about the pictures or artists that are on the data mashup. If the students worked by them selves this could not give the chance to understand the exercise fully. There could always be a question sheet afterwards that the students have to answer using the information they just heard from the teacher or they could create a piece of art demonstrating how they see vampires.
Our pipe: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=zmdCjZMd3hG7_xX_6Scw5g
We are having a lot of trouble finding RSS websites for both this subject and RE and Art, so we will be working extra hard to get pipes up and running for these.
I (Milli) was quite excited about the pipe for this subject, but we are having real trouble getting good quality websites with RSS. We will keep trying.
Data mashups could be used here as a day-by-day or lesson-to-lesson tool, perhaps a period in time per day or lesson.
Lots of religions believe in vampires in some ways (or they used to anyway). Especialy in the days when they believed in witches and vampires. This was around the 16th Century. For a fact, in the book Twilight, Carlisle (the acting father of the Cullens and also the oldest, he has been a vampire for 365 years) was 21 and living in London in the 16 Century with his dad who was an Anglican pastor. Carlisle's father was one of those people who are very anti-vampire. Carlisle was chasing after some vampires and hunting them down with a big mob of people behind him. This is how he got turned into a vampire. One of them turned on him and bit him. This is an example of what will be on the data mashup. There will be things about how different religions reacted to these creatures and what they did to try to kill them (like burn them at the stake).
So how could you use data mashups to teach this to a religion class? Basically like you would use data mashups in any other subject. The teacher can either take the students through all the information she finds on the mashup or the students can work one their own. Another thing is the teacher could set a small in-class asignment that the students need to do in pairs. The teacher can write down what she will like you and your partner to find out. Then you can find the answers and present it to the class in some way afterwards.
The Data mashup for music is basically a study of the Twilight Soundtrack. This would be including who the artists are and what the songs names are, what genres of music there are (is it JAZZ?!!!!) and when were the songs used in the movie.
This would be one of the best subjects to use data mashups in because it is using technology for music. You would be able to hear to songs and find all the information about them just on the internet. Since this is for Music Technology it fits in perfectly.
Artists on the soundtrack: Muse, Paramore, The Black Ghosts, Linkin Park, Mutemath, Perry Farrell, Collective Soul, Paramore, Blue Foundation, Robert Pattinson, Iron & Wine, Carter Burwell.
By hearing the music and reading about it on the data mashup, the class can make links to why each song was chosen and what mood it gives the movie. There are also benefits of the Stephenie Meyer's thoughts in the mashup. The above video gives all the songs on the soundtrack and when they are played.
Since most schools dont have computers for Junior and Primary levels, data mashups will not make such a big impact on this level. However the teacher could go to an existing mashup and print information for students. Since they dont have to dig around for information, they will spend less time reseaching for the class and more time teaching them.
In some schools, the teachers classroom may have a Smart Board, letting the teacher teach about data mashups and the subject at the same time
Since this area of schooling is more equipped with technology like computers and projectors, data mashups can be more easily used. Data mashups should make a huge impact, because they are easily made and used and get the most recent information in one place. Teachers with their busy schedules won’t have to run around on the internet looking for relevant and up-to-date information when they could be marking or teaching further. They will only have to look for information once or not at all if the mashup has already been made.
Entertainment will benefit largely from data mashups because if you are trying to find something out about, say, New Moon instead of going on to Google and sifting through thousands of irrelevant entries, you can go to one site. Likewise with ballet companies, you could go to a data mashup for either the theatre that holds ballets or the ballet company.
1. Science (done)
2. PE (done)
3. Religion
4. Tech. Materials (done)
5. English (done)
6. Social Studies (done)
7. Art (done)
8. Music Technology (done)
What is a data mashup
How to make one
How does it impact Intro:
(Milli and Rebecca talking on camera)
Milli: Hey it's Milli
Rebecca: And Rebecca
Milli: We're here to tell you about data mashups
Rebecca: And how they will impact Physical Education what is a data mashup?
(Video of Milli and Rebecca making mashed potatoes) Milli: Data mashups can be explained using food analogy. Rebecca: To make mashed potato (a data mashup), you get the cheese from one place, the milk from another, the potatoes from yet another and the butter from another, then you mash them up to make one component. Milli: Let’s say the potatoes are like Yahoo Pipes, the base of the dish (or the data mashup). The cheese is YouTube, the milk is Wikipedia and the butter is various other websites with RSS feeds. Rebecca: You put all the extra ingredients into the potatoes and mash them up to make new flavour. Milli: So you are left with a new dish (your data mashup) made up of all your ingredients (or websites) Rebecca: In all, a data mashup is a website or application that combines information from a whole heap of other websites. One thing about a data mashup that can’t be explained by the mashed potatoes is that when the websites in your mashup update information, your mashup is updated along with it. How to make a data mashup:
(Video of someone making a data mashup.)
Milli: First you'll need to go to http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
Rebecca: You'll also need an account on Yahoo. This is free.
Milli: Once you have one, click on the "Create a Pipe" link.
Rebecca: To get started, drag a "Fetch Feed" box into the main screen.
Rebecca: The websites you put into your mashup need to have RSS feeds.
Milli: To find out if the website has RSS, look at the top right of the screen.
Rebecca: There will be an orange icon if there are feeds. YouTube and Wikipedia almost always have these.
Milli: Then copy and paste URLs of websites into the boxes in your Fetch Feed box. When you are finished, drag the bottom of the URL box to the Pipe Output
Rebecca: Click "Save" then "Publish" and the Pipe will run and be on the internet.
Milli: Dont forget to name the pipe. Impacts on Education (PE) :
(In a classroom)
Miss B: Today we will be learning how to play baseball. We'll be using a data mashup. So you all need to stand up and do the exercises with the tutorial.
(clicks on the link to baseball pipe and opens YouTube link class starts doing what the man on the screen is doing)
(Interview with Miss B)
Milli: How will using data mashups impact Physical Education?
Rebecca: How could you use a data mashup to teach PE?
Milli: Do you think that data mashups will catch on in PE?
Rebecca: If you were given a choice, would you teach using data mashups? I decided to write this because Rebecca and I faced many challenges when researching data mashups. Firstly, the horizon for our technology was two to three years. If you think about it, that is actually quite a long time, so since not many people know about them (yet!) it was a bit challenging finding articles and videos about data mashups. There are some data mashups out there, but we never thought that they were data mashups, for example, Google Maps. We thought it was just a programme that Google made, but it a collaboration of lots of websites that are constantly updating to update Google Maps. Secondly, data mashups overlap quite a bit. They are to do with collaborative webs as well, because a lot of information comes to one place. We also found in making a pipe (data mashup) that even though we had web addresses of pages relevant to our topic, some pages that we didn’t want still came through into the mashup. Perhaps this is because Yahoo!Pipes is a Beta programme, which means that it is still being developed. We think that data mashups have potential to be better. Mashups would me much more useful if they were developed to a better standard. It was also very hard to think of ways we could use mashups to teach classes becuase data mashups are quite narrow.
1. Set wiki page up (done)
2. Dossier of examples of technology (links, clips, articles) (done)
3. Decide on context (launch/announce on wiki)(done)
4. Read assessment brief (done)
5. Discuss curriculum links with subject teachers (record on wiki) (done)
6. List of IT skills your group needs to learn (done) 1. Review week 2 targets
-Ensure reflection on wiki
-Transfer incomplete targets to week 3 targets. (done)
2. Discuss curriculum links with teachers (record on wiki) (done)
3. Plan video (done)
4. Think about presentation (done)
5. Begin video (done)
6. Finalise the curriculum links-what we are doing for each subject. (done)
7.Finalise the wiki template (done)
1. Continue last week’s targets(done)
2. Finish video (done)
3. Finalise paragraphs for each subject (done)
4. Finish last pipes (done)
1.Yahoo Pipes
2. Wiki
3. Online Movie Makers
4. Zoho
5. Google Docs
Milli Retter and Rebecca MacLeod
EDITOR: Milli
RESEARCHER: Milli and Rebecca
CAMERA WOMAN: Rebecca
BRAIN-BOX: Milli and Rebecca
SCRIPT & VIDEO: Milli
ACTING TALENT: Milli and Rebecca
ARTIST: Rebecca
PRESENTERS: Milli (Bella) and Rebecca (Rosalie)
Wikipedia
YouTube
The alpha's imprint and the Samon surfer's wife.
:-)
(Amelia is the Latin version of Emily, Rebecca is Jacob's sister who live in Hawaii!)
Year 9 Diocesan is doing the Horizon Project. Each of us got into a group of 2 and one group of 3. We then researched one of the 7 trends. Then, we got assigned our technology. We got data mashups. At first we were a little apprehensive, as we couldn’t find much about them, but then as we started to find out more, we got the idea.
Basically data mashups are an application or web-site that gets all its information from other sources on the internet. As the sources update their information, so does your data mashup. One example of a data mashup is Google Maps. People from around the world can add information to sites or sources. So for example, if a new street is built, the information about that street is automatically sent to Google Maps and the satellite that gives Google Earth the pictures for the programme. Yahoo Pipes is an application that allows you to make data mashups. You copy the URL from a websites that have an RSS feed to Yahoo Pipes and it gets the page for your mashup. As the page updates, the RSS feed changes the information sent to the mashup. The mashup then updates itself. It relates to education, because all the resources needed to teach a class can be in one place, in a data mashup. Since it is constantly updated automatically, the teachers dont have to keep updating it, which takes up time. The information is also current and up-to-date, giving the students the best possible and true information. After we had researched data mashups, we had to choose a theme. We chose Twilight. We chose this as our theme because 1) We are absolutely obsessed with it and 2) the majority of our peers love it as well, so it is an interesting subject to them as well as us. What we have to do with this theme is create a question related to Twilight for each topic (Art, PE, Health, English, Science, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Music and Technology Materials) and how we can teach the answer to the question using data mashups. We then are creating a data mashup for each subject concerning our question to do with Twilight.
Finally, we each make a video individually about data mashups. These cannot be made with Windows Movie Maker or another similar programme. We have to use a programme that is internet based.
http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Data_Mashups_Questions
Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com
Here is the information for all the subjects that we will follow. We are going to make a data mashup for each subject, showing how they can be used to teach a Twilight related theme for each class.
In Science we are finding out about blood because obviously that has something to do with Twilight. When it comes to blood there are a lot of different sub-categories available. One of the areas you can study is 'What blood types there are?', Others might be 'What is inside blood?' or 'What is blood made up of?', 'What animals have blood as/in their diet?' , 'How prone is blood to diseases and what can you do to improve this?' ,'How important is blood to keeping a human or body alive?', 'What role does blood have once it is in the heart?'. So as you can see you can go in all ways with just one subject that is one word long. You could easily get carried away.
This could be taught on individual laptops, the teacher creating a pipe or using the one we have made On Yahoo Pipes. Perhaps there could be a class Yahoo account so that when a student finds a website about blood with RSS, they can edit the pipe and add onto it. That way the student could be learning about blood by reading for relevance to put into the pipe, and then by the links on the pipe. Data mashups are simple to use. In this case they would find it on the internet or yahoo and select the link that looks most relevant to their question they have at the time. Say the question was 'What animals have blood as/in their diet?'. The teacher can either take the students through it as a class or everyone can use it individually. If the teacher took the class through she would need to project it on to a projector screen or have a Smart board in the class. He/She can click on the links that are to do with blood drinking animals and go on to the different websites. The class could ask questions together and interact in a way that they can't if they were working individually. To work individually the student will obviously need their own laptops or the classroom has 30 odd desktops to supply them with. Then they would go through the same process as they would have with their teacher but by themselves.
Here is our pipe: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=0oLlYiAX3hGNuoC_BBNMsA
This just speaks for itself. On the data mashup you will find out what books Twilight is based on, what themes are in the book and find character studies. This ties into English very well because it is a book and includes all the things (or most of them) that are studied in English.
Here we thought we could use data mashups in two ways to teach the above question.
First, the teacher could have a data mashup, with resources about the book in general.
Second, the students could make their own data mashups using Yahoo Pipes to explore an aspect of Twilight that interests them, such as a character study or how classics are interwoven in the book.
The below is a link to a character study.
http://au.rottentomatoes.com/guides/twilight_character_guide/
The below clip is the author of the Twilight Saga talking about how the books came to be.
The following is a link to our first data mashup, used for general information about the Twilight Saga (books only)
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=KmM18JYS3hGH5YGaZMag4A
This data mashup is just another way of teaching Baseball in PE. Instead of the teacher teaching the class physically he/she can get them to learn how to catch in the best way without injuring your hands or fingers, letting you know the rules of baseball in detail, how to bat and the best way to do it etc. All this just in a baseball data mashup.
Miss Biddick says that it is great for a teacher have up-to-date information to refer to. Here the data mashups are helpful. We think the best way to use this mash up is as a class so in this case Miss Biddick would take us to a health class and project the data mashup on to a screen and talk it through with the class. This would mean that the class will probably get more out of the exercise. They would understand more about what is being demonstrated with the help of a proper PE teacher.
Here are some YouTube clips about how to play baseball. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have an embedding code.
Baseball Equipment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvsNCYoXHck&feature=channel
Bats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sFOPW5LyA4&feature=channel
Outfield: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wNB3I3nCjI&feature=channel
Stealing Bases: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBlVe_Uhh2I&feature=channel
Basic Rules: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVWDD-zA8JY&feature=channel
Bases: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7KQsbDgs1g&feature=channel
How to Catch a Baseball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TatRRaHm0M&feature=channel
There are more clips on the side bar of all of the above pages.
Link to our pipe - please note that lately Pipes haven’t been working very well: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=tltVvDAX3hGOED253rVd_w
Here are the Cullens playing baseball like no human ever will.
Some of you that don't have Twilight crazy daughters might be thinking what's marble got to do with Twilight. Well actually it is one of the main characterises of vampires. Their skin is described as marble. Just like marble, their skin is rock hard, very strong, sparkly and is very pale. Bella (the main character and the book is from her point of view) often describes The Cullens (her vampire family) as having skin like marble.
Milli and I thought that the best way to demonstrate this similarity is by comparing the two. So the data mashup will have videos and sites saying what the properties of marble are and then sites and videos that demonstrate what vampire skin is like.
Among these materials is marble. Below is a link to a Wikipedia page about marble:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble
This is a video of sculpting a marble woman:
Below may add a bit of insight into why a vampire's skin is so hard and perfect.
Since this is a very hands-on subject, data mashups would be a little harder to tie in, but maybe a project could be added into a project where students have to create a mashup about the topic they are doing, or the teacher could use a mashup with a link to step-by-step how-to videos.
Our pipe:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=kLy9A0Qe3hG7AWiZbbsjiw
Here is the best link I could find (at the moment) to some history of vampire art.
http://www.darkfaery-subculture.com/general/the-history-of-vampire-art/
The rest are about weird stuff, not really to do with Art at all and most are blocked.
How have vampires been depicted through time? This may include paintings on canvas, sculptures, dances, action and in movies. This basically means how have vampires been pictured, what is the stereotype of a vampire, what is the first thing you think of when someone mentions the word vampire. An example of this is how I see it. Before reading the Twilight Saga I always thought of vampires as cruel, violent, gothic creatures. But now I always think of sparkly, indestructible, beautiful, loving, vegeterian creatures. This is a perfect example of how you can change your mind about how things are and look like by learning something different.
The most efficent way to use data mashups in this case is by the teacher taking the class through the data mashup. This would mean that the students get more backround information about the pictures or artists that are on the data mashup. If the students worked by them selves this could not give the chance to understand the exercise fully. There could always be a question sheet afterwards that the students have to answer using the information they just heard from the teacher or they could create a piece of art demonstrating how they see vampires.
Our pipe:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=zmdCjZMd3hG7_xX_6Scw5g
What is the creation of vampires?' , 'What did they do to make people suspicious?' , 'How have they been hiding?' , 'Overall, what is the history of Vampires?'. That's what we need to ask ourselves. It is truly a mystery. So a good way to find this out is to use data mashups!!!!
Data mashups in this situation can be used in exactly the same way as ever. Individually or as a class. To make it more interesting we could add surveys and games to the data mashup. it is probably better to work individually and look at any of the sites and take notes. Then at the end of this exercise the whole class can make a brainstorm or mind map of the things they found. This means that in a shorter time you would find more information than if it was going through with the teacher.
We are going to make a pipe, but the following are the websites without RSS feeds, so cannot be used in the pipe.
http://www.essortment.com/all/vampireshistory_rjxm.htm
http://www.dagonbytes.com/vampires/history/dracula/
Below is (supposedly) the website that Bella visits to find out about vampires.
http://www.vampiresaz.webs.com/
(Take particular note of Stregoni Benefici - this is the one and only Carlisle!!!!!!!!!!! Eeeek!)
This is a timeline of the history of vamps: http://hellhorror.com/vampires/history_of_vampires/
And the rest of the following websites are also about the history of vampires:
http://www.geocities.com/adrianbelmont/drac_vamps1.html
http://www.angelfire.com/biz4/vampyreresearch/myth.html
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/folklore/vampire-folklore.html
http://www.csicop.org/si/9603/staking.html
http://bylightunseen.net/
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/v/vampire.html
http://hellhorror.com/vampires/vampire_folklore/
http://www.necronomi.com/users/akrieytaz/folklore.html
http://www.vampiresamongus.com/hunters.html
http://truelegends.info/paranormal/bohemia.htm
We are having a lot of trouble finding RSS websites for both this subject and RE and Art, so we will be working extra hard to get pipes up and running for these.
I (Milli) was quite excited about the pipe for this subject, but we are having real trouble getting good quality websites with RSS. We will keep trying.
Data mashups could be used here as a day-by-day or lesson-to-lesson tool, perhaps a period in time per day or lesson.
Finally made a pipe: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=Qkb_5noZ3hGkBP6m1ZzWFw
Lots of religions believe in vampires in some ways (or they used to anyway). Especialy in the days when they believed in witches and vampires. This was around the 16th Century. For a fact, in the book Twilight, Carlisle (the acting father of the Cullens and also the oldest, he has been a vampire for 365 years) was 21 and living in London in the 16 Century with his dad who was an Anglican pastor. Carlisle's father was one of those people who are very anti-vampire. Carlisle was chasing after some vampires and hunting them down with a big mob of people behind him. This is how he got turned into a vampire. One of them turned on him and bit him. This is an example of what will be on the data mashup. There will be things about how different religions reacted to these creatures and what they did to try to kill them (like burn them at the stake).
So how could you use data mashups to teach this to a religion class? Basically like you would use data mashups in any other subject. The teacher can either take the students through all the information she finds on the mashup or the students can work one their own. Another thing is the teacher could set a small in-class asignment that the students need to do in pairs. The teacher can write down what she will like you and your partner to find out. Then you can find the answers and present it to the class in some way afterwards.
http://vampirism.subject-expert.com/religion-spirituality-f5/do-vampires-have-any-religion-or-path-t12.htm
Our pipe:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5izNUHYe3hGjFUHxbbsjiw
The Data mashup for music is basically a study of the Twilight Soundtrack. This would be including who the artists are and what the songs names are, what genres of music there are (is it JAZZ?!!!!) and when were the songs used in the movie.
This would be one of the best subjects to use data mashups in because it is using technology for music. You would be able to hear to songs and find all the information about them just on the internet. Since this is for Music Technology it fits in perfectly.
Artists on the soundtrack: Muse, Paramore, The Black Ghosts, Linkin Park, Mutemath, Perry Farrell, Collective Soul, Paramore, Blue Foundation, Robert Pattinson, Iron & Wine, Carter Burwell.
Muse: http://www.muse.mu/index.php
Paramore: http://www.paramore.net/
The Black Ghosts: http://www.theblackghosts.co.uk/
Linkin Park: http://linkinpark.com/
Mutemath: http://www.mutemath.com/
Perry Farrell: http://perry-farrell.net/
Collective Soul: http://www.collectivesoul.com/
Blue Foundation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Foundation
Robert Pattinson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pattinson
Iron & Wine: http://www.ironandwine.com/
Carter Burwell: http://www.carterburwell.com/main/carter_burwell.shtml
Twilight Soundtrack Official Website:
Our Pipe: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=zm1nL9QU3hGSP6E21ZzWFw
By hearing the music and reading about it on the data mashup, the class can make links to why each song was chosen and what mood it gives the movie. There are also benefits of the Stephenie Meyer's thoughts in the mashup. The above video gives all the songs on the soundtrack and when they are played.
Since most schools dont have computers for Junior and Primary levels, data mashups will not make such a big impact on this level. However the teacher could go to an existing mashup and print information for students. Since they dont have to dig around for information, they will spend less time reseaching for the class and more time teaching them.
In some schools, the teachers classroom may have a Smart Board, letting the teacher teach about data mashups and the subject at the same time
Since this area of schooling is more equipped with technology like computers and projectors, data mashups can be more easily used. Data mashups should make a huge impact, because they are easily made and used and get the most recent information in one place. Teachers with their busy schedules won’t have to run around on the internet looking for relevant and up-to-date information when they could be marking or teaching further. They will only have to look for information once or not at all if the mashup has already been made.
Entertainment will benefit largely from data mashups because if you are trying to find something out about, say, New Moon instead of going on to Google and sifting through thousands of irrelevant entries, you can go to one site. Likewise with ballet companies, you could go to a data mashup for either the theatre that holds ballets or the ballet company.
1. Science (done)
2. PE (done)
3. Religion
4. Tech. Materials (done)
5. English (done)
6. Social Studies (done)
7. Art (done)
8. Music Technology (done)
1. Science (done)
2. PE (done)
3. Religion (done)
4. Tech Materials (done)
5. English (done)
6. Social Studies (done)
7. Art (done)
8. Music Tech (done)
What is a data mashup
How to make one
How does it impact
Intro:
(Milli and Rebecca talking on camera)
Milli: Hey it's Milli
Rebecca: And Rebecca
Milli: We're here to tell you about data mashups
Rebecca: And how they will impact Physical Education
what is a data mashup?
(Video of Milli and Rebecca making mashed potatoes)
Milli: Data mashups can be explained using food analogy.
Rebecca: To make mashed potato (a data mashup), you get the cheese from one place, the milk from another, the potatoes from yet another and the butter from another, then you mash them up to make one component.
Milli: Let’s say the potatoes are like Yahoo Pipes, the base of the dish (or the data mashup). The cheese is YouTube, the milk is Wikipedia and the butter is various other websites with RSS feeds.
Rebecca: You put all the extra ingredients into the potatoes and mash them up to make new flavour.
Milli: So you are left with a new dish (your data mashup) made up of all your ingredients (or websites)
Rebecca: In all, a data mashup is a website or application that combines information from a whole heap of other websites. One thing about a data mashup that can’t be explained by the mashed potatoes is that when the websites in your mashup update information, your mashup is updated along with it.
How to make a data mashup:
(Video of someone making a data mashup.)
Milli: First you'll need to go to http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
Rebecca: You'll also need an account on Yahoo. This is free.
Milli: Once you have one, click on the "Create a Pipe" link.
Rebecca: To get started, drag a "Fetch Feed" box into the main screen.
Rebecca: The websites you put into your mashup need to have RSS feeds.
Milli: To find out if the website has RSS, look at the top right of the screen.
Rebecca: There will be an orange icon if there are feeds. YouTube and Wikipedia almost always have these.
Milli: Then copy and paste URLs of websites into the boxes in your Fetch Feed box. When you are finished, drag the bottom of the URL box to the Pipe Output
Rebecca: Click "Save" then "Publish" and the Pipe will run and be on the internet.
Milli: Dont forget to name the pipe.
Impacts on Education (PE) :
(In a classroom)
Miss B: Today we will be learning how to play baseball. We'll be using a data mashup. So you all need to stand up and do the exercises with the tutorial.
(clicks on the link to baseball pipe and opens YouTube link class starts doing what the man on the screen is doing)
(Interview with Miss B)
Milli: How will using data mashups impact Physical Education?
Rebecca: How could you use a data mashup to teach PE?
Milli: Do you think that data mashups will catch on in PE?
Rebecca: If you were given a choice, would you teach using data mashups?
I decided to write this because Rebecca and I faced many challenges when researching data mashups. Firstly, the horizon for our technology was two to three years. If you think about it, that is actually quite a long time, so since not many people know about them (yet!) it was a bit challenging finding articles and videos about data mashups. There are some data mashups out there, but we never thought that they were data mashups, for example, Google Maps. We thought it was just a programme that Google made, but it a collaboration of lots of websites that are constantly updating to update Google Maps. Secondly, data mashups overlap quite a bit. They are to do with collaborative webs as well, because a lot of information comes to one place. We also found in making a pipe (data mashup) that even though we had web addresses of pages relevant to our topic, some pages that we didn’t want still came through into the mashup. Perhaps this is because Yahoo!Pipes is a Beta programme, which means that it is still being developed. We think that data mashups have potential to be better. Mashups would me much more useful if they were developed to a better standard. It was also very hard to think of ways we could use mashups to teach classes becuase data mashups are quite narrow.
1. Set wiki page up (done)
2. Dossier of examples of technology (links, clips, articles) (done)
3. Decide on context (launch/announce on wiki)(done)
4. Read assessment brief (done)
5. Discuss curriculum links with subject teachers (record on wiki) (done)
6. List of IT skills your group needs to learn (done)
1. Review week 2 targets
-Ensure reflection on wiki
-Transfer incomplete targets to week 3 targets. (done)
2. Discuss curriculum links with teachers (record on wiki) (done)
3. Plan video (done)
4. Think about presentation (done)
5. Begin video (done)
6. Finalise the curriculum links-what we are doing for each subject. (done)
7.Finalise the wiki template (done)
1. Continue last week’s targets(done)
2. Finish video (done)
3. Finalise paragraphs for each subject (done)
4. Finish last pipes (done)
1. Yahoo Pipes
2. Wiki
3. Online Movie Makers
4. Zoho
5. Google Docs
Milli Retter and Rebecca MacLeod
EDITOR: Milli
RESEARCHER: Milli and Rebecca
CAMERA WOMAN: Rebecca
BRAIN-BOX: Milli and Rebecca
SCRIPT & VIDEO: Milli
ACTING TALENT: Milli and Rebecca
ARTIST: Rebecca
PRESENTERS: Milli (Bella) and Rebecca (Rosalie)
Wikipedia
YouTube
The alpha's imprint and the Samon surfer's wife.
:-)
(Amelia is the Latin version of Emily, Rebecca is Jacob's sister who live in Hawaii!)